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The idea and inspiration for this post comes from my mom. She is visiting from Bolivia and as we were chatting and catching up she asked me what I was going to blog about for Monday. I hadn’t thought about it yet (probably because I was too excited over her visit to simmer over any ideas.) She had a sewing idea ready to pitch — THE SCRUNCHIE. What? But before I totally shelved her idea, I googled “are scrunchies making a comeback” . . . and sure enough, they have made their comeback. You can even buy this fancy Marc Jacobs scrunchie for $32.

Here is a quick tutorial for my mother’s version of the scrunchie. This one is a two-poofed scrunchie which enhances the scrunchiness of the scrunchy scrunch.

My mom completed this sewing project for me. I just took the photos. So she gets full credit for this one. Thanks mom!

All you really need is

some scrap fabric. (mine was 10 inches by 22 inches)

elastic

sewing machine (my mom hand sews hers back home)

safety pin

Then turn it right side out, mark the middle and sew two straight stitches on both sides of chalk mark to create a “channel” for the elastic . . .

You can hand sew to join the ends together. Here it is . . .

It’s totally scrunchalicious . . .

I always throw my hair in a bun, so I just wrap this right around. I’ve worn it every day since. Thanks mom!